Chefday offers cooking classes from celebrity chefs, as well as the option to have all of the required ingredients sent direct to the user’s door. While not everyone can cook like a top chef, innovations such as Restolib‘s professional kitchen lessons have helped pave the way. Now Chefday is also tapping celebrity cuisine talent to […]

I was not at the Facebook announcement in Menlo Park on Tuesday, so I neither drank the KoolAid nor felt compelled to respond immediately. I’m glad I waited. Facebook’s new Graph Search feature is both a bigger and a smaller story than what most observers were expecting. On the one hand, this will now be an […]

Facebook’s newest feature Graph Search (so new it’s still in beta) can apparently tell you lots of stuff. Which of your friends are into surfing, hiking or drinking cups of tea. Or, delving into darker territory, which of your friends are sexist or racist — as this Gizmodo article points out. (Ewww.) But Graph Search […]

Zach Supalla Zach Supalla is founder and CEO of Spark, a hardware startup making products for the connected home, starting with connected lights. Zach has a background in product design and development, and he formerly worked at Groupon and McKinsey & Company. On November 13, 2012, my company launched on Kickstarter. Thirty days later, on […]

Across the world, authorities are wildly overreacting to the threat posed by online activism. History says it won’t work. Expect more Aaron Swartzs, Bradley Mannings and Kim Dotcomes in coming years. Much of the discussion following the death of Aaron Swartz relates to the issue of disproportionate prosecution. Legal heavyweights and online activists discuss whether […]